Effective cancer treatment necessitates both high efficacy of local treatment and combatting sub-clinical systemic disease. Consequently, cancer therapy today involves various combinations of local and systemic treatment modalities. Of those, combining drugs and radiation has been attracting particular attention both in terms of its biological rationale and its potential of increasing the therapeutic outcome. The course aims at updating participants about established and emerging knowledge in this field. It will provide the key-messages that biological and clinical research is currently bringing to the oncology community.

This course aims to:

Update participants about biological effects of combining drugs and radiation in normal and tumour tissue

Present evidence-based clinical applications of combined modality treatment using drugs and radiation in major human malignancies

Stimulate case-based discussion on the interdisciplinary treatment of cancer

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course participants should be able to:

Describe the rationale and mechanisms of the action of combined drug radiation treatment in cancer

Discuss the evidence for combined drug radiation treatment in different tumour sites

Select patients for combined drug radiation treatment

Decide on the optimum treatment strategy, sequencing and duration, for different patients

Decide on the optimum strategy including new drugs (immunotherapy etc.)

Course Content

General lectures

Biologic basis for combining drugs with radiation

Combining drugs with radiation: quantifying the therapeutic gain

Combining new drugs with radiotherapy

Radiation and non-cytotoxic drugs

Hypoxic cell radiosensitisers

Alteration of radiotherapy fractionation and concurrent chemotherapy

Designing clinical trials for combined modality treatments.

Site specific lectures including practical case discussions

Head and neck cancer

Non small cell lung cancer

Small cell lung cancer

Breast cancer

Prostate cancer

Bladder cancer

Cervical cancer

Oesophageal cancer

Gastric cancer

Rectal cancer

Anal canal

Pancreas

Brain tumours

Lymphomas

Prerequisites

Before commencing this course participants should:

Be confident with the basic mechanisms of radiotherapy and systemic treatment in oncology

Know the basic principles of management of solid tumours

Know different ways of delivering chemotherapy/systemic therapy in combination with radiotherapy

Teaching Methods

20 hours of lectures

5 hours of case discussions

Presentation and critical discussion of the available evidence, discussion of clinical cases

Methods of Assessment

Evaluation form

Programme

Coming soon

Accreditation

Application for CME recognition will be submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). EACCME credits are recognised by the American Medical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). Information on the status of the applications can be obtained from the ESTRO office

Membership

ESTRO members can order products at substantially reduced prices. Please note that in order to benefit from the member price, you must renew your membership for 2020 before registering to the course.To benefit from these member rates, please visit the membership page to become a member or renew your membership BEFORE proceeding with your order.

Fees

Early rate

Late rate

In-training members*

450 EUR

625 EUR

Members

600 EUR

725 EUR

Non Members

750 EUR

850 EUR

* Members with specialty RadiationTherapist (RTT) may register at the In Training fee

Early rates are applied up to three months before the starting date of the course. Late rates are applied three months before the starting date of the course.

The fee includes the course material, coffees, lunches, and the social event.

Since the number of participants is limited, late registrants are advised to contact the ESTRO office before payment, to inquire about availability of places. Access to homework and/or course material will become available upon receipt of full payment.

Insurance and cancellation

The organiser does not accept liability for individual medical, travel or personal insurance. Participants are strongly advised to take out their own personal insurance policies.

In case an unforeseen event would force ESTRO to cancel the meeting, the Society will reimburse the participants fully the registration fees. ESTRO will not be responsible for the refund of travel and accommodation costs.

In case of cancellation, full refund of the registration fee minus 15% for administrative costs may be obtained up to three months before the course and 50% of the fee up to one month before the course. No refund will be made if the cancellation request is postmarked less than one month before the start of the course.

Reduced fees

ESTRO members from economically challenged countries may register at a preferential rate of 350 Euro if three conditions are met:

Only ESTRO members for 2020 are eligible (please make sure your 2020 membership is in order before you apply for the reduced fees)

Only one course per person per year can be subsidized by ESTRO

Sponsored candidates are not entitled to reduced fees (the invoicing address has to be the one of the participant)

Please note:

We can only guarantee a certain number of reduced fees per course

Application deadlines are the same as early registration fees (3 months before the course date